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For me, prog rock has always been essentially British. It combines all our great and eccentric genius. We are not hung up on categories, rules and classification. We love people who break the mould, challenge us and make us think differently.
- Gavin Esler
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I think there have to be Bachs and Beethovens. We may have - there are so many more people. Musical training is available to so many more, but it may be that we've hit a right wall in terms of accessible styles and since we demand innovation as a criterion of genius, there may not be more innovative styles to be found.
- Stephen Jay Gould
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I wish - I wish instead of just recommending these books, I could set them down at your doorstep. The collected stories of John Updike, the second volume of T.C. Boyle's collected stories, and Stanley Crouch's book about the rise and times of our genius saxophone player Charlie Parker. These are deep books, books that you can get lost in.
- Alan Cheuse
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I saw 'Hamilton' when it was at the Public, and I just wept profusely in my seat because this is a form I love deeply, and to watch it be reinvented in such a genius, gifted way and executed by such a brilliant company of human beings, I was overwhelmed with not just appreciation for the piece of work itself but for the possibility.
- Mandy Patinkin
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My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
- Allen Ginsberg
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I really got into 'The Walking Dead.' That was genius. And I have to say, my husband is on 'Shameless,' and I think it's a brilliant show.
- Sarah Shahi
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I'm doing what all modern artists do now, which is nothing - just sit around and dream about things. I'll do what they call 'the stroke of genius.'
- Billy Al Bengston
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A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.
- Joey Lauren Adams
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
- Bobby Fischer
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At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I'm still not sure if he's a genius or very thick. It's a fine line.
- Hugh Bonneville
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The men who miss success have two general alibis: 'I'm not a genius' is one; the other, 'There aren't the opportunities today there used to be.' Neither excuse holds. The first is beside the point; the second is altogether wrong.
- Charles M. Schwab
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My goal is to create friend machines. Friendly genius machines. Machines with genius capabilities.
- David Hanson
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Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
- Mel Brooks
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The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.
- Marcus Buckingham
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Sad to think that we won't have any new stories from John Updike, one of the last century's masters. But so many here in the two volumes of his collected stories, 186 by my count, stories to read, reread, savor over the course of a cold season. Updike's genius in the short form spills out of these many, many pages.
- Alan Cheuse
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Mike is a genius guitar player and keyboard player. I realized that, with this group, I just joined Mike Keneally's band!
- Joe Satriani
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Joss Whedon who created 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer,' 'Angel,' and all that... he is a genius.
- Christian Kane
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Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work.
- Robert Caro
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If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
- William Hazlitt
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Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
- William Godwin
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Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
- Umberto Eco
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Sometimes you have crazy ideas that sound crazy to everybody, but I'm sure everybody has had a crazy idea before. When you pull it off and you don't look crazy anymore, you look like a genius.
- Fabolous
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
- E. T. A. Hoffmann
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Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
- John Denham
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Chuck Berry had a very profound impact on me. The man was a genius.
- Daryl Davis
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Mike gets to play four roles this time, if we ever did it again, he will play my role as well. He is a comic genius, everyone wants to be in this movie, let's hope that everyone will wish to see it as well.
- Michael York
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I never paid attention to many of the Nicholas Sparks films. 'The Notebook,' which my wife liked, I felt that Ryan Gosling was a genius in it and Rachel McAdams has this thing about her that you just want to take care of her. I remember that chemistry between them.
- George Tillman, Jr.
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It's called 'Miles Davis, Prince of Darkness,' and it's about Miles Davis, the genius, and why he was the way he was, and how he changed music so many times. He changed music six times. So, I'm excited about that movie.
- George Tillman, Jr.
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Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
- Jack Kemp
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'Wet Hot American Summer' was sort of lowbrow genius, you know? But smart in its cultish silliness. It wasn't considered something of great cultural caliber. But like many cult pieces, it sort of became something culturally relevant, which I think is what's so wonderful about it.
- Lake Bell
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Only a genius can play a fool.
- Michael Rapaport
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There are so many remarkable playwrights working right now, that I see everything I can. Annie Baker is a genius, I'll see anything she writes. The same for Lynn Nottage, Cynthia Hopkins, and Lisa D'Amour. Anything they've got going on, I'll go see.
- Lucy Alibar
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I got to pick the mind of a genius, and I realized why he was a genius. And I realized the man behind the veil or whatever you want to call it. Do you know what I mean? I got to see what makes Dr. Dre Dr. Dre, and I got to interpret that. It's hard to put it into words, so the only thing I know how to do is put it on the screen.
- Corey Hawkins
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I became a genius on 'Ed,' though I'm not sure it was very convincing.
- David Eigenberg
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Tracey Cunningham is my colorist, and she is genius! We match my color from when I was a kid.
- Lily Aldridge
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I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
- Patricia McBride
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
- Hannah Gadsby
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There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that.
- Stanley Clarke
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Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him.
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
- W. H. Murray
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I'm no genius, sure, but I'm no dum-dum.
- Sandra Dee
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Tina Fey is a genius - I've seen it with my own eyes now. She's a very observant person, and I've never seen somebody write such a high volume or as quickly as she does.
- Barrett Wilbert Weed
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Genius doesn't always come in neat packages.
- Jonathan Agnew
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Two actors who have different motivations and skill sets can work together and be magic. Charles Grodin and Robert DeNiro technically couldn't work more differently, and yet they made 'Midnight Run,' which is a genius comedy.
- John Carroll Lynch
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It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.
- J. Reuben Clark
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This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.
- Henryk Sienkiewicz
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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As well as being a creative genius, Vidal Sassoon was a formative figure of the Sixties. Along with the Pill and the mini-skirt, his influence was truly liberating.
- Mary Quant
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The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.
- Ken Burns
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Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.
- Martin Van Buren
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As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius - in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around.
- Jimmy Carl Black
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I don't like to say it, but I don't care, I'm a real-life genius.
- Blueface
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The extraordinary genius of John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie 100 years ago was their recognition that the great wealth they had amassed could be put to public good and used to solve the complex problems for which there were no other sources of capital.
- Judith Rodin
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I think that we see Steve Jobs as the genius speaker in the mock black turtleneck with the round glasses, sort of beautifully delivering his new product, and I think that for people to understand that he started in a garage.
- Joshua Michael Stern
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Sometimes the hardest thing about committing the perfect crime can be keeping your genius to yourself.
- Sarah Lacy
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Almost no one wants to admit the genius of Jeff Bezos and Amazon. Apparently, many have failed to see that Amazon has become the world's biggest retail company.
- Hubert Burda
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Clive Barker is just genius, and he's incredibly gifted in so many different ways. He can write and direct and paint and do all these different things, and he can do them all extremely well.
- Scott Bakula
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Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.
- Flea
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I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.
- Matthew Sweet
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The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.
- Lytton Strachey
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A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.
- Kay Redfield Jamison
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It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.
- Diana Wynne Jones
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And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere.
- Diana Wynne Jones
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I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it's just a question of finding this.
- Diana Wynne Jones
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I do not use the word 'genius' lightly, but if David Bowie is not a genius, then there is no such thing.
- Mick Rock
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If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.
- Simon Newcomb
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The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.
- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
- Margot Fonteyn
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The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.
- George Grosz
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Hands down, Rick Ross is a genius. Hands down, Diddy is a genius. Hands down, Kanye is a genius. All of them.
- Betty Wright
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I am so thankful for the genius of Phil Spector, for his recognition of my talent to be the main voice of his Wall of Sound.
- Darlene Love
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Despite his dodgy politics, Yeats remains an inspiration for his genius and the simple fact that the older he got, the better he wrote.
- David Benioff
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Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.
- Robert Blair
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I'm a genius. I'm like Prince.
- Josh Hopkins
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Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.
- Rufus Wainwright
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Martin Freeman is a genius, he really is. He gives you every color of the rainbow in every take and it's wonderful just to play off of him and opposite him.
- Lara Pulver
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I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius.
- Jez Butterworth
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Loner heroes do appeal to that part of yourself that feels as though your genius hasn't been recognised.
- Shaun Evans
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When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.
- Garry Marshall
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Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.
- Orson F. Whitney
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My father was a genius footballer, a natural, two-footed centre-forward who had played for Arsenal juniors, but he was sent out to work aged 14 and so lived out his life in a frustrated, rageful way.
- Sean Scully
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When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate.
- Claire McCaskill
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I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
- Max Beerbohm
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Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius.
- John Philip Sousa
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
- Walter Kirn
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The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along.
- Susan Orlean
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Ricky Gervais is a genius.
- Oscar Nunez
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I'm into the lyrical side of rap. I listen to some old Eminem songs and think, 'Wow, he's a genius.' He's one of the greatest poets of our time. Even when he's out of control, like on 'Cold Wind Blows,' it's incredible.
- Phoebe Tonkin
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Julius Eastman is the kind of American genius not enough people know about.
- Hilton Als
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I've done all the table reads for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for all the pirate movies, because he's just been doing other stuff, and I just love the whole Jack Sparrow thing he's got going on; it is just genius, and I just think he has so much fun with it.
- Owain Yeoman
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There are some good teachers out there, but the only one who is a genius at diagnosing my swing is my mom. She took up golf late, when she was 39, but in her younger days, she was an amazing athlete. She never read an instruction book or took lessons, but she has a remarkable eye for motion.
- Boo Weekley
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It's a total big difference between a person that got lyrics and a person that can make hit singles. I'm a person that can make some hit singles. I'm not in no booth trying to be a lyrical genius. I'm preparing to make me some singles, and as I develop as a man, then they'll respect my emcee skills.
- Waka Flocka Flame
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I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'
- Waka Flocka Flame
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Mark Zuckerberg is a genius. Not in the Asperger's, autistic way depicted in the very fictional movie 'The Social' Network, the cognitive genius of exceptional ability. That's a modern definition that reduces the original meaning.
- Antonio Garcia Martinez
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In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.
- Alex Cox
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Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.
- Harvey Keitel
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When I started out in the duck-call business, my college buddies would come in and say, 'Robertson, you have a college degree. What are you doing?' Then they drove away saying, 'What an idiot!' Thirty-five years later, they're saying, 'The sucker's a genius!'
- Si Robertson
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I admire Johann Strauss a lot. I believe he was a genius of his time.
- Andre Rieu
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Isco is a genius. He is a natural and a huge talent.
- Marco Reus
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Hellhammer is the best drummer ever, and Euronymous is a musical genius.
- Varg Vikernes
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